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...Westerners, Tubman was a faintly improbable figure in a top hat and cutaway, a stickler for formality who lived in a $6 million, neon-lit palace. To his people, he was a father figure, accessible and gregarious, always ready to hoof a lively quadrille, Liberia's national dance. He sought to present an air of omniscience, insisting on approving all government expenditures of more than $200 and even extending his jurisdiction down to settling his staff's marital problems...
...contributions to Africa's oldest independent black state. His rule was characterized by both stability and a medicum of physical progress. By means of education and arm-twisting, Tubman did all he could to wipe out the differences between native tribesmen and the elitist Americo-Liberians (descendants of Liberia's freed-slave founders...
...administration, he increased the budget from $1,000,000 to more than $65.2 million, and began a road and rail system. But these achievements came at the price of doing away with a free press, stifling all official opposition and maintaining a docile, corrupt civil service. Under his rule, Liberia's economy remained largely the preserve of the Firestone Co. As events following his death showed, the country is firmly adhering to the rule of law-at least for the moment. Under the U.S.-style constitution, the leadership was peaceably handed over to Vice President William R. Tolbert...
Died. William Tubman, 75, ruler of Liberia since 1944 (see THE WORLD...
...almost at will, the rich and growing capital market in Hong Kong. The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp. has been a steady source of his financing. With its backing, Pao charts the course for his 63-ship fleet through a baffling array of tax-haven companies in Liberia and the Bahamas. The empire is managed through Pao's personal company, World-Wide (Shipping...